Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Holmes, Clarissa H. 1885
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, January 2, 1885


Mrs. Clarissa H. Holmes was born at Shelburn, Chittenden, county, Vermont, 
March 28, 1821.  Her parents removed to Oswego, New York, in 1832, and in 1839 
removed to Ohio.  While living in Seneca county, Ohio, she met Nathan Holmes 
to whom she was married on May 28, 1848, soon after which they removed to 
Grattan Center, Kent county, Michigan, where Mr. Holmes engaged in the milling 
business.  For the past 17 years they have resided in Ionia county.

Her death occurred on Friday, December 26, at the residence of her daughter, 
Mrs. J. F. Tower in Ionia, and was quite unexpected, though she had been ill 
for some little time.  One son, little Ira, has gone before her and awaits her 
coming.  Three children survive her, Mrs. J. F. Tower, of Ionia, Mrs. C. W. 
Mercer, of Saranac, and E. C. Holmes of Hubbardston.  She as one of six 
children of whom four survive her, R. W. Bellamy of Luther, Mich., E. S. 
Bellamy of Ionia, Joseph Bellamy of Toledo, Ohio, and Mrs. Elizabeth Wolfe of 
Grattan, Mich.  Henry A. Bellamy, the fourth brother, died in May last at 
Toledo.

Mrs. Holmes was a genial and companionable woman and beloved by all who became 
intimately acquainted with her.  She as one of the “charter members” of the 
old settler “Washingtonian Society” of Grattan, Otisco and Greenville.  This 
society was organized February 22, 1863 by a part of 22 old settlers who 
chanced to meet at the residence of one of their number and they have since 
kept up their annual meetings.  Mr. and Mrs. H. have never missed being 
present at any one of its 20 meetings.  She is the third of its original 
members to answer the call of the grim messenger, the other two being A. G. 
Stockholm of Eureka, and Mrs. Nelson Homes of Grattan and her death will leave 
a sad vacancy at their next meeting.


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